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| Ez | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 22:25 |
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 Level: 3 CS Original | I'm sure you've heard people saying how birth rates in the US and Europe aren't enough to sustain growth and eventually the West will cease to exist because of it. Is there any truth to this? | |||||
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| Omni-Science | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 23:19 |
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 Ordo Ab Chao. Level: 8 CS Original | I remember believing this through my misanthropist tween years. Secondly, the population growth for developed countries is actually very close to 0, at 0, or below zero. It is the developing nations of the world that still make babies like crazy. Just look at population pyramids for different countries for example. | |||||
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| Sil the Shill | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 23:23 |
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 Level: 9 CS Original | I don't think it's anything to worry about. Like Omni said, I'm pretty sure most Western developed nations are in the negative... but I think it would still take a very long time before we "cease to exist". And if it deeps to low, I'm sure there might be some factors that would bounce it back up... I find it very hard to believe that we're on a straight and speedy decline to zero. | |||||
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| Omni-Science | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 23:25 |
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Ordo Ab Chao. Level: 8 CS Original | The trend seems to be that the more rights, freedoms, and quality life women have, the less babies they tend to have. Hence Europe being mostly stable while Africa is exploding, population wise. | |||||
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| Joe | Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 09:37 |
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 Level: 8 CS Original | Plus birth rates tend to go down when infent mortality rates go down. When mortality rates are high then birth rates go up. | |||||
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